I've been totally spoiled for fireworks since btw. Plus it was a road trip from CO to FL and full of fun, like driving through beautiful Mississipi with all the autumn colors (my favorite colors) and driving through endless, endless Texas (and stalling out on the trip back to spend a freezing night under emergency blankets, ugh), and then Florida itself. I LOVED Epcot. We went in 2000 and they had all these special exhibits and celebration stuff and the fireworks... I have literally been bored by all other fireworks since. They don't compare.
2. South Dakota
We did Mount Rushmore, which was all fogged up :sniffs:, and a bunch of other sites I can't name you today, but it was fun, and the whole family was there and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.
3. Yellowstone
Old Faithful geysers, a bison walking down the middle of the hotel parking lot, mud pots, a prettier geyser than Old Faithful, and me just about wearing out my camera's panorama setting on the views and the canyon and the everything.
4. Norwood
We went up earlier this year to a filmmakers camp and that area up there is GORGEOUS. It reminded me of all the things I love about Colorado that I don't get enough of in the foothills instead of the mountains.
5. Poudre Canyon
I spent my formative years in Estes Park right off the national forest. We've moved around so much before and after, but I love our mountains. I don't necessarily want to go out into them often, but I LOVED Poudre Canyon.
My family would go up there to picnic and hang out on the river and step on the stones and my sister would gather them sometimes to craft into gorgeous paper weights, and they were my happiest memories out of doors. I think I should have made this number one. I love my memories of this river. I truly do.
I had to look up 3 of those 5 places but omgggg Poudre Canyon looks like Norway. :D
And I would LOVE to go to Yellowstone. There, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon are the places I'd go to the States for. And then NY, Frisco, Grand Sequoia and the Everglades. OH and New Orleans. But... well, the US is quite far down my list of places to go, to be honest...
I understand that completely. The older I get, the more I appreciate the areas I grew up in. :sighs: I kind of miss going. Me and my sister were planning a road trip and that would be awesome to go back, I think.
Epcot fireworks are NOT to be missed. I've been a bunch of times, but the first time was the best, when I saw them during the Wine & Food Festival that Disney hosts there during half of September and all of October. (We got park hopper passes and spent five days doing all four parks and food food food wine wine wine ride ride ride was a TERRIFIC but exhausting way to celebrate coming through my only major surgery. We just, you know... moved slowly!)
My awesome husband and best friend were both very considerate of the fact that my lower abdomen was held together with (literal) superglue for stitches. :D
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Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 09:04 pm (UTC)I've been totally spoiled for fireworks since btw. Plus it was a road trip from CO to FL and full of fun, like driving through beautiful Mississipi with all the autumn colors (my favorite colors) and driving through endless, endless Texas (and stalling out on the trip back to spend a freezing night under emergency blankets, ugh), and then Florida itself. I LOVED Epcot. We went in 2000 and they had all these special exhibits and celebration stuff and the fireworks... I have literally been bored by all other fireworks since. They don't compare.
2. South Dakota
We did Mount Rushmore, which was all fogged up :sniffs:, and a bunch of other sites I can't name you today, but it was fun, and the whole family was there and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.
3. Yellowstone
Old Faithful geysers, a bison walking down the middle of the hotel parking lot, mud pots, a prettier geyser than Old Faithful, and me just about wearing out my camera's panorama setting on the views and the canyon and the everything.
4. Norwood
We went up earlier this year to a filmmakers camp and that area up there is GORGEOUS. It reminded me of all the things I love about Colorado that I don't get enough of in the foothills instead of the mountains.
5. Poudre Canyon
I spent my formative years in Estes Park right off the national forest. We've moved around so much before and after, but I love our mountains. I don't necessarily want to go out into them often, but I LOVED Poudre Canyon.
My family would go up there to picnic and hang out on the river and step on the stones and my sister would gather them sometimes to craft into gorgeous paper weights, and they were my happiest memories out of doors. I think I should have made this number one. I love my memories of this river. I truly do.
Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 09:11 pm (UTC)And I would LOVE to go to Yellowstone. There, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon are the places I'd go to the States for. And then NY, Frisco, Grand Sequoia and the Everglades. OH and New Orleans. But... well, the US is quite far down my list of places to go, to be honest...
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